436 SATURDAY JUNE 9th:- We arose late this morning and I went out for a stroll. The country about us is great meadow full of little streams which work down from the snow-fields and the ground is soaked through out. About the meadow is a border of tamaracks and re fir. The tamaracks are abominable to climb as the limbs all droop because of the pressure of the winter's snow. Rocks and bowlders are strewn everywhere through the trees. This morning I found two nests to which I did not climb. Along the road I saw a nest in a 12-foot tamarack near its top. On shaking the tree a Blue-fronted Jay flew off. Contents four incubated eggs. Nest large and made of a foundation of sticks, plenty of mud and horse manure and a lining of coarse roots, with a few pine needles. The old bird kept at a distance though rather remonstrative. Shot a whistling marmot, a small colony of which were located on a knoll. I saw a Mountain Chickadee clinging to a hole in the side of the cabin, beneath the floor and on looking in saw the female on the nest. Contents 8 eggs incubation begun. The birds seemed to spend their time in a tamarack tree near the house, calling industriously. A number of Pine Siskins were flying about the barn and corral and were quite tame. Identity certain. We shot two White-crowned Sparrows. Plumed Quail and Olive-sided Flycatchers were heard calling rather commonly. Leroy found a Blue-fronted Jay's nest in a red fir with small young. We saw a magnificent male Pine Grosbeak in bright red plumage in a tamarack swamp, feeding. He was remarkably tame. Also got close to a Williamson's Sapsucker which was drilling in a red fir. In the afternoon we went up a ridge, one-third of the way to Pyramid, the rock formation being principally of granite. On the southeast slope of the peak at 8,500 feet altitude snow was plentiful and a cold, stiff wind blowing. Flocks of Purple Finches and Pine Siskins were feeding on the edge of the snow. Shot a male Cassin's Purple Finch. A flock of Clarke's Nutcracker were cawing in a canyon of hemlocks, spruces and pines and several were seen. Also a pair of